King of Cool: The Genius of Ray Charles

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Mess Around
  2:38
  3.0 ★
• 2
  I’ve Got a Woman
  2:52
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Roll With My Baby
  2:35
• 4
  Greenbacks
  2:49
• 5
  Sinner’s Prayer
  3:22
• 6
  The Sun’s Gonna Shine Again
  2:36
• 7
  It Should’ve Been Me
  2:41
• 8
  Jumpin’ in the Morning
  2:45
• 9
  This Little Girl of Mine
  2:31
• 10
  Don’t You Know
  2:56
• 11
  I Wonder Who
  2:47
• 12
  The Midnight Hour
  2:59
• 13
  I Got a Break Baby
  2:46
• 14
  Funny (but I Still Love You)
  3:12
• 15
  Losing Hand

  Ray Charles and His Orchestra
  3:11
• 16
  Doodlin’
  5:51
• 17
  Mary Ann
  2:45
• 18
  Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)
  2:52
• 19
  Nobody Cares
  2:39
• 20
  Leave My Woman Alone
  2:40
• 21
  Ain’t That Love
  2:51
• 22
  Dawn Ray
  5:01
• 23
  It’s Alright
  2:14
• 24
  Come Back Baby
  3:04
• 25
  Drown In My Own Tears
  3:18
  4.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Hallelujah I Love Her So
  2:35
  3.0 ★
• 2
  You Be My Baby
  2:27
• 3
  Georgia on My Mind
  3:40
• 4
  Lonely Avenue
  2:33
• 5
  Get on the Right Track Baby
  2:17
• 6
  That’s Enough
  2:46
• 7
  Swanee River Rock (Talkin’ ’bout That River)
  2:16
• 8
  My Bonnie
  2:46
  4.0 ★
• 9
  What Kind of Man Are You
  2:48
• 10
  Blackjack
  2:21
• 11
  The Ray
  3:58
• 12
  Talkin’ About You
  2:50
• 13
  Tell All the World About You
  2:01
• 14
  Unchain My Heart
  2:51
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Tell the Truth
  3:04
• 16
  I Had a Dream
  2:52
• 17
  The Genius After Hours
  5:23
• 18
  Carryin’ That Load
  2:14
• 19
  I Want to Know
  2:08
• 20
  What Would I Do Without You
  2:37
• 21
  Yes Indeed!
  2:15
• 22
  Bag’s Guitar Blues
  6:26
• 23
  I Want a Little Girl
  2:53
• 24
  I’ve Got a Woman (live at Newport Jazz)
  6:19
• 25
  What I’d Say (live, 1959)
  4:22
• CD 3
• 1
  What’d I Say, Parts I & II
  6:27
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Hit the Road Jack
  1:58
  4.4 ★
• 3
  I’m Movin’ On
  2:22
• 4
  (Night Time Is) The Right Time
  3:24
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Come Rain or Come Shine
  3:41
• 6
  A Fool for You
  3:02
• 7
  It Had to Be You
  2:42
• 8
  Let the Good Times Roll
  2:52
• 9
  Tell Me How Do You Feel
  2:41
• 10
  I Believe to My Soul
  2:59
• 11
  Tell Me You’ll Wait for Me
  3:22
• 12
  Early in the Morning
  2:46
• 13
  Alexander’s Ragtime Band
  2:52
• 14
  You Won’t Let Me Go
  3:19
• 15
  Just for a Thrill
  3:23
• 16
  Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying
  3:45
• 17
  When Your Lover Has Gone
  2:49
• 18
  Am I Blue
  3:38
• 19
  Deed I Do
  2:25
• 20
  Two Years of Torture
  3:24
• 21
  Sinner’s Prayer (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  3:43
• 22
  Tell Me How Do You Feel (take 1) (recording session outtake, 1958)
  3:17
• 23
  Let the Good Times Roll – Dialog (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959)
  2:46

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Release credits

• Ahmet Ertegun
  producer [3.1, 3.4, 3.6, 3.8, 3.10, 3.12, 3.15, 2.1, 2.20, 1.1-2, 1.4, 1.21, 1.23, 1.25]
• Bennie Crawford
  baritone saxophone [12], saxophone [10]
• Billy Mitchell
  tenor saxophone [2.22, 3.7, 3.17, 3.20]
• Bob Brookmeyer
  valve trombone [11, 14-15, 18]
• Bruno Carr
  drums (drum set) [3.2, 2.14]
• Cecil Payne
  baritone saxophone [1.25, 2.1, 2.20]
• Charles "Clanky" Whitley
  trumpet [1.2, 1.4, 2.10]
• Clark Terry
  trumpet [7-8, 13, 17, 19-20]
• Connie Kay
  drums (drum set) [1.1, 2.22]
• Dave McRae
  baritone saxophone [1]
• David “Fathead” Newman
  alto saxophone [4, 6], baritone saxophone [1.2, 1.4, 2.10, 3.6], saxophone [8, 12, 23], solo [2.14, 3.4, 1.4], tenor saxophone [3.1-2, 3.7-8, 3.10, 3.12-13, 3.17, 3.19-20, 1.21, 1.23, 2.14]
• Don Wilkerson
  solo [1.2, 2.1], tenor saxophone [1.2, 1.4, 1.25, 2.1, 2.10, 2.20, 3.6]
• Edgar Willis
  bass [2.8, 2.12, 2.14, 2.23, 3.1-2, 3.4, 3.10, 3.12]
• Emmott Dennis
  baritone saxophone [2.8, 2.12, 2.23, 1.21, 1.23]
• Ernie Royal
  trumpet [7-8, 13, 17, 19-20]
• Frank Wess
  flute [7-8, 13, 17, 19-20], saxophone [7-8, 13, 17, 19-20]
• Glenn Brooks
  drums (drum set) [1.2, 1.4, 2.10]
• Hank Crawford
  alto saxophone [3.2, 2.14], baritone saxophone [1, 4]
• Herb Abramson
  producer [1]
• Jerry Wexler
  producer [1.2, 1.4, 1.21, 1.23, 1.25, 2.1, 2.17, 2.20, 3.1, 3.4, 3.6-8, 3.10-15, 3.17-20], tambourine [21, 23]
• Jesse Drakes
  trumpet [1]
• Jesse Stone
  arranger [1]
• Jimmy Bell
  bass [2.10, 1.2, 1.4]
• Joe Bridgewater
  trumpet [3.6, 2.1, 2.10, 2.12, 2.20, 2.23, 1.2, 1.4, 1.21, 1.23, 1.25]
• Joe Newman
  trumpet [7-8, 13, 17, 19-20]
• John Hunt
  trumpet [1.21, 1.23, 2.14, 3.2, 3.10, 3.12]
• Joshua Willis
  trumpet [1.25, 2.1, 2.20]
• Leiber & Stoller
  producer [4]
• Leroy Cooper
  baritone saxophone [2.14, 3.2]
• Lloyd Trotman
  double bass [1]
• Marcus Belgrave
  trumpet [3.1, 3.4, 3.7-8, 3.10, 3.12-13, 3.17, 3.19-20, 2.8]
• Margie Hendrix
  vocal [2, 4]
• Marshall Royal
  alto saxophone [7-8, 13, 17, 19-20]
• Mary Ann Fisher
  vocal [12, 23]
• Melba Liston
  trombone [7-8, 13, 17, 19-20]
• Mickey Baker
  guitar [1]
• Milt Jackson
  vibraphone [22]
• Milt Turner
  drums (drum set) [1, 4]
• Nesuhi Ertegun
  producer [3.7-8, 3.11, 3.13-15, 3.17-20, 2.17, 2.22]
• Oscar Pettiford
  bass [22]
• Panama Francis
  drums (drum set) [1.25, 2.1, 2.20]
• Paul Gonsalves
  tenor saxophone [7-8, 13, 17, 19-20]
• Paul West
  bass [20], double bass [1.25, 2.1]
• Phillip Guilbeau
  trumpet [2.14, 3.2]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [7-8, 13, 17, 19-20]
• Quincy Jones
  arranger [7-8, 13, 17, 19-20]
• Ralph Burns
  arranger [11, 14-15, 18]
• Ray Charles
  arranger [3.1-2, 3.4, 3.6, 2.1, 2.14, 1.2, 1.4, 1.17, 1.21, 1.23, 1.25], electric piano [1, 4], keyboard [8], organ [12], piano [2.1, 2.10, 2.12, 2.14, 2.17, 2.20, 2.22-23, 3.2, 3.6-8, 3.10-15, 3.17-20, 1.1-2, 1.4, 1.21, 1.23, 1.25], vocal [3.1-2, 3.4, 3.6-8, 3.10-15, 3.17-20, 1.1-2, 1.4, 1.21, 1.23, 1.25, 2.1, 2.8, 2.10, 2.12, 2.14, 2.20, 2.23]
• Renald Richard
  vocal [1]
• Richie Goldberg
  drums (drum set) [8]
• Ricky Harper
  trumpet [3.4, 2.8, 2.12, 2.23]
• Riley Webb
  trumpet [6]
• Roosevelt Sheffield
  bass [1.21, 1.23, 3.6], double bass [17]
• Sam “The Man” Taylor
  tenor saxophone [1]
• Sid Feller
  producer [2.14, 3.2]
• Snookie Young
  trumpet [7-8, 13, 17, 19-20]
• Teagle Fleming
  drums (drum set) [10, 12]
• The Raelettes
  background vocals [1.21, 1.23, 2.14, 3.1-2, 3.4], vocal [8, 12, 23]
• Tom Dowd
  engineer [22]
• Wendell Marshall
  bass [11, 14-15, 18]
• Wesley Jackson
  guitar [2.10, 1.2, 1.4]
• William Peeples
  drums (drum set) [2.12, 2.17, 2.23, 1.21, 1.23, 3.6]
• Zoot Sims
  tenor saxophone [8, 13, 19]
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  King of Cool: The Genius of Ray Charles

  3x CD
  17 June 2014